User blog comment:Derekoe/Devil Arms, and Sparda's Time on Earth...?/@comment-775152-20111023031827/@comment-976055-20111023162530

Yeah, you're take on Devil Arms is how I feel, pretty much. That Devil Arms are weapons (guns and swords) forged by demons in some way, and that a powerful enough demon can use their entire soul (or part of it, in Sparda's case) to form one - which also lends to all the Devil Arms named after the demon it was received from (Alastor, Ifrit, Beowulf, Nevan, Cerberus, Sparda, etc).

I try not to take into account the "limitations from development" as part of an excuse as much as I can, just because...well...it ruins the mystique, haha. It's oftentimes too easy to debunk stuff just because of the graphical limitations, but yeah, I understand. It makes a lot of sense to me that Dante at first had to use what little power he had to tap into the devil inside the Devil Arm first, and then by the end of the timeline, where people say he had surpassed his father, that he was strong enough to bring out his own devil form, regardless of what Arm he had on him at the time.

I'll have to poke the Sparda stuff after work >.<